L’Odalisque
Jen here to enthusiastically introduce today’s very special edition, which we’re launching in support and celebration of my dear friend Glynnis MacNicol’s new memoir. I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself is a luminous account of her adventures in Paris just as the world was beginning to emerge from the first wave of the pandemic. There’s a lot of excitement around this book, and its contents and its cover have generated a soupçon of controversy too. Our modern society just isn’t sure what to do with a mature, independent woman who wholeheartedly pursues joie and fulfillment on her own terms and apparently they (we?) just can’t handle the female form either, even if the form in question happens to be a 1745 painting that hangs in the freaking Louvre. Naturally, we decided to make a print based on the original Boucher work that’s featured on the book cover, and are delighted that Glynnis herself wrote an introduction about the painting for us.
— Jen
